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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 113. Chapters: Entropy and information, Quantum mechanical entropy, Thermodynamic entropy, Entropy encoding, Standard molar entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence, Entanglement distillation, Geometrical frustration, Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory, Principle of maximum entropy, Bekenstein bound, Maximum entropy thermodynamics, History of entropy, Introduction to entropy, Entropy and life, Differential entropy, Heat death of the universe, Gibbs paradox, Negentropy, Entropy of mixing, Maximum entropy probability distribution, Partition function, Von Neumann entropy, Disgregation, Hirschman uncertainty, Inequalities in information theory, H-theorem, Quantum relative entropy, Isentropic process, Measure-preserving dynamical system, Renyi entropy, Free entropy, Boltzmann's entropy formula, Conditional mutual information, Entropic force, Quantum statistical mechanics, Enthalpy-entropy chart, Recurrence period density entropy, Multivariate mutual information, Topological entropy, Entropy estimation, Self-information, Landauer's principle, Quantum mutual information, Joint quantum entropy, Perplexity, Conditional entropy, Volume entropy, Cross entropy, Sackur-Tetrode equation, Conformational entropy, Residual entropy, Nucleate boiling, Ascendency, Configuration entropy, Exformation, Entropic explosion, Binary entropy function, Joint entropy, Information gain ratio, Loop entropy, Entropy rate, Tsallis entropy, Dudley's theorem, Holevo's theorem, Conditional quantum entropy, Boltzmann entropy, Ectropy, Gibbs algorithm, Orders of magnitude, Coherent information, Monster, Maximum entropy spectral estimation, Min-entropy, Variation of information, Entropy of vaporization, Entropy of fusion, Nonextensive entropy, Homentropic flow. Excerpt: Entropy is a thermodynamic property that can be used to determine the energy available for...
